The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park

06/14/2026

The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park is pleased to announce Anna O’Meara as the recipient of the 2026 Postdoctoral Award.

Her research explores the origins of artificial intelligence within the humanities, examining how early experiments in automated art and networked systems reshaped ideas of creativity, language, and society. Drawing on archival research and the work of cybernetic theorist Abraham Moles, O’Meara’s project connects historical debates to questions that continue to shape our contemporary world.

Her research will contribute to a forthcoming monograph based on her dissertation Spectacle as World and will be presented at Company of Ideas 2027.

Congratulations, Anna!

06/12/2026

Last Chance to Apply: Summer Employment at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park

Interested in working outdoors this summer while helping welcome visitors to the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park?

We're hiring casual General Park Attendants for our August public opening dates and are especially encouraging applications from youth on Hornby and Denman Islands.

📅 Apply by June 12, 2026
💲 $25/hour
📍 Hornby Island, BC

No experience is necessary. We're looking for people who are reliable, punctual, and comfortable working outside in summer conditions.

👉 Full position details and application instructions are available on our website: rubinoffsculpturepark.org

06/05/2026

Jeffrey Rubinoff devoted his life to the belief that art is an act of will in accord with a mature conscience. At a time when he felt increasingly alienated from prevailing art trends, he chose a radically independent path: building a life that would allow him to create art on his own terms.

On Hornby Island, he established what is now the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park: over 200 acres of forest, meadow, and mountain views housing more than 100 large-scale steel sculptures. The park was not conceived as a traditional exhibition space, but as a total work — sculpture, architecture, and landscape held in deliberate dialogue.

Rubinoff’s legacy lives on through public openings, educational programs, performances, and research residencies that invite new generations of artists and thinkers into conversation with his work.

The sculptures remain and the ideas continue. Follow along for upcoming events.

📸: Series 4-9, 1985, Cor-ten A 242 steel

06/02/2026

For Jeffrey Rubinoff, the land on Hornby Island was never a backdrop. It was a presence that was expansive, demanding, and impossible to ignore.

“This is a crushing environment for a sculptor,” he said during the Park’s 2014 Company of Ideas Forum. “It offers so much, that the work itself seems so small, and so human, and so paltry in this environment. But if the piece is strong enough it can stand on its own.”

The sculpture sites at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park were carefully planned: not as places to just place art, but as environments in dialogue with it. Often, the sites were designed first. The work then had to prove itself equal to the land.

Rubinoff spoke of the park as his “breathing environment.” Over time, sculpture and landscape became inseparable- steel forms not imposed upon the terrain, but growing from it.

Series 6 stands not as an object dropped into nature, but as something tested by wind, scale, and horizon.

📸: Series 6-Andromeda 5, 1993, Cor-ten A 242 steel

06/02/2026

"Coming off a few very overstimulating weeks at the Banff Centre, I couldn’t have asked for a more nourishing and grounding place to land than the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. I spent the week writing music for the sculptures and reconnecting with a quieter creative headspace.

I grew up in a very art-filled home, but sculpture was one of those mediums I’d never really spent much time with before. I feel like I developed a whole new relationship to it while I was there, and it was super fascinating to learn about Rubinoff’s relationship to composition within his works.

I uncovered a lot of new curiosities and perspectives that I’m excited to bring into my own compositions, and I’m feeling really inspired by the work I started during my time there."

Thank you to Elisa Thorn for sharing this reflection on her time at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. It is always rewarding to see contemporary artists engage with Rubinoff's work and discover new ideas through the landscape, sculptures, and creative space he envisioned.

We are grateful to support artists as they explore, experiment, and develop new work through the Exploratory Research Residency.

05/28/2026

✨ Residency Reflection: Katriina Campitelli

During her seven-day residency at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Katriina Campitelli spent more than 40 hours immersed in the landscape, wandering, sketching, photographing, and reading among the sculptures themselves. Her days unfolded slowly: pausing in the shade of a work, lying in the grass with a book of essays, taking in mountain views, and allowing attention to settle.

She found herself especially drawn to the park’s larger sculptures, where she recognized strong affinities with her own installation practice. The deeply site-responsive nature of each work - from design to siting - opened new questions about how landscaping, pacing, and framing might enter her future projects.

Coming from a busy urban arts community into 200 acres of open sculptural space, Katriina reflected on how profoundly setting and atmosphere shape our encounter with art.

She left Hornby Island feeling inspired, restored, and hopeful for a return.

05/25/2026

Music was not simply inspiration for Jeffrey Rubinoff, but a structural force within his work.

While developing Series 4, Rubinoff listened closely to the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach, particularly those in D minor. The sculptures that emerged do not illustrate music; they behave musically.

Series 4 develops T-sections into fugue-like spatial dynamics. Repeated triangular gussets create rhythms that shift as the viewer moves. What appears fixed in steel becomes dynamic in perception. Like a Baroque fugue, each work unfolds in layers - contrapuntal, structured, alive with variation.

“These [triangular gussets] form polyrhythms through space and as you move around it their intervals will change. So not only do you have a sense of fugal polyphony, you also have the sense of the alterations of rhythm working counter to each other visually in Space.”
— Jeffrey Rubinoff, 2008 Inaugural Forum Sculpture Tour

To walk around Series 4 is to enter a kind of visual fugue; a rhythm translated into steel, counterpoint unfolding in space.

Learn more about Series 4 by visiting our website: rubinoffsculpturepark.org

📸Series 4-6, 1984, A 242 Cor-ten steel

05/21/2026

🎶 Residency Project: Elisa Thorn

During her residency at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Elisa Thorn will explore how sculptural form can become a generative framework for musical composition.

Selecting works from different sculptural series, she will translate formal elements - shape, negative space, and movement through time - into 4–5 new sketches for harp, voice, and electronics. In this process, sculpture becomes an active structural agent, shaping melody, rhythm, and texture.

By carrying visual form across multiple musical scales, Thorn expands her interdisciplinary practice into three-dimensionally informed composition, positioning sculpture not only as something seen, but as something experienced temporally, in sound, and in dialogue with Jeffrey Rubinoff’s ideas.

05/19/2026

We are delighted to introduce the recipients of the 2026 Exploratory Research Residency awards at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park.

✨ Katriina Campitelli
Anti Digital Environments: Reclaiming Attention in a Sculptural Landscape
Katriina’s residency explores slowness, site-responsiveness, and how scale, weather, and silence shape perception. Her research considers how attention is reclaimed in the presence of sculpture and landscape.

✨ Elisa Thorn
Investigating sculptural form as a generative framework for musical composition, Elisa will translate selected works into new compositions for harp, voice, and electronics - treating sculpture as a structural agent experienced through time.

✨ Prof. J. Sage Elwell
Using the park as a living laboratory, Prof. Elwell will explore sculpture, conscience, embodiment, and human making in dialogue with Rubinoff’s secular humanism - developing studies toward a new sculptural series and illustrated essay.

To read more about each resident and their project, visit our website at rubinoffsculpturepark.org

Follow along throughout the season for updates, reflections, and glimpses into their research at the park.

05/14/2026

Now Hiring: Youth Park Attendant Positions – Summer 2026

Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park — Hornby Island, BC
🗓 Application deadline: May 21, 2026
💲 Pay: $25/hour

We are seeking casual Park Attendants for the 2026 public opening season.

Positions available:
• String Quartet Performance Attendant (Mandatory shifts July 21, 23 & 24)
• General Park Attendant (Various shifts, 5 hours long)

Hornby Island and Denman Island youth are especially encouraged to apply. Comox Valley residents are also welcome.

These entry-level roles help ensure visitor safety in the fields, assist with parking and sculpture exhibit set-up, and support guests during public openings and special events.

No experience required, just the ability to work outdoors in summer conditions, plus reliable communication, punctuality, and dependability.

👉 For full position details and application instructions, visit our website:

More than thirty years in the making, the 200-acre Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park is home to over a hundred steel sculptures – artist Jeffrey Rubinoff’s life’s work.“The purpose of Rubinoff’s work is to rekindle the historical spirit of modernism.  In addition to viewing that work which ...